linux-kernel - mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1310150358170.11905@eggly.anvils>
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 04:08:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd

Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
__split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).

It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there:
a racing do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another
huge page before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.

Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens.
    
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---

 mm/huge_memory.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 3.12-rc5/mm/huge_memory.c	2013-09-16 17:37:56.811072270 -0700
+++ linux/mm/huge_memory.c	2013-10-15 03:40:02.044138488 -0700
@@ -2697,6 +2697,7 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_are
 
 	mmun_start = haddr;
 	mmun_end   = haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
+again:
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 	if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
@@ -2719,7 +2720,14 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_are
 	split_huge_page(page);
 
 	put_page(page);
-	BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));
+
+	/*
+	 * We don't always have down_write of mmap_sem here: a racing
+	 * do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another
+	 * huge page before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)))
+		goto again;
 }
 
 void split_huge_page_pmd_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
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